Migna Safety Solutions

General Industry · Self-Paced · about 45 min total

Arc Flash & Electrical Safety (NFPA 70E)

Advanced · Course MIG-GI-301

Training for qualified electrical workers on shock and arc-flash hazards under NFPA 70E and OSHA Subpart S.

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This is a Migna Safety Solutions course with a Migna certificate of completion. It is not OSHA Outreach Training and does not include a Department of Labor card.

This course is for qualified persons — workers who are trained and authorized to work on or near energized electrical equipment. It goes well beyond basic electrical awareness: it covers the shock and arc-flash hazards you face at the equipment, the approach boundaries and arc-flash boundary that govern how close you may get, the risk-assessment and energized-work-permit process, and the selection and care of arc-rated PPE. The material aligns with NFPA 70E, the consensus standard OSHA enforces through the General Duty Clause and 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S (Electrical). NFPA 70E is not itself an OSHA regulation, but it is the recognized method for complying with OSHA's electrical safety requirements, and OSHA routinely cites employers against it. This course does not by itself make you a qualified person. Your employer must still provide job- and equipment-specific hands-on training, verify your ability to work safely on the systems you are assigned, and determine and document your 'qualified' status. Use this course as the knowledge foundation that hands-on training builds on. Upon passing you receive a Migna certificate of completion with a publicly verifiable certificate number.

What you are buying

32 min
Enforced seat time
3
Modules
15
Lessons
3
Interactive exercises
27
Quiz questions

Seat time is enforced on our servers. The clock is calculated from signed progress events rather than in your browser, so it cannot be sped up — a certificate that states 32 minutes of training means it. The 45 minutes shown above is that gate plus the quizzes and final exam, which are not on the clock.

Retraining due every 3 years

This interval comes from the standard the course is written against, not from us. The date is printed on the certificate, and we email a reminder before it lapses.

Written against 6 published standards

Every citation below appears in the course content and is checked against the current text of the rule before publication.

  • 1910 Subpart S
  • 1910.331
  • 1910.335
  • 29 CFR 1910.147
  • NFPA 70E
  • Subpart S

What You Will Be Able To Do

The course is built to reach these, and the quizzes are written to confirm them.

  • Distinguish shock and arc flash hazards and describe the injuries each produces
  • State the steps required to establish an electrically safe work condition
  • Determine the shock approach boundaries and the arc flash boundary for a task
  • Describe the risk assessment procedure and when an energized electrical work permit is required
  • Select arc-rated PPE against an incident energy or PPE category, and describe the safe work practices that accompany it

What's Covered

  1. Module 1: Electrical Hazards & the NFPA 70E Framework

    • Shock, arc flash, and arc blast — and who is a 'qualified person'
    • NFPA 70E, OSHA, and the electrically safe work condition

  2. Module 2: Boundaries, Risk Assessment & the Energized Work Permit

    • Shock Approach Boundaries and the Arc-Flash Boundary
    • Risk assessment and the energized electrical work permit

  3. Module 3: Arc-Rated PPE & Safe Work Practices

    • Selecting Arc-Rated PPE
    • Safe Work Practices for Qualified Workers